U.S. Department of Defense

The Department of Defense -- the largest U.S. employer – offers many rewarding and challenging jobs, in a variety of different fields, as a service member or as a civilian, on the Fort Detrick campus and around the world. Because Fort Detrick is a U.S. Army Medical Installation, the primary defense missions on the campus include biomedical research and development, medical materiel management and global telecommunications. The U.S. Department of Defense is represented by the following subsidiaries at Fort Detrick:

Department of the Army

U.S. Army Garrison

The U.S. Army Garrison, Fort Detrick, commands, operates and administers resources providing quality installation support and services to Department of Defense (DoD) and non-Department of Defense partners, meeting current and future mission requirements in biomedical defense research and development, medical materiel management, and global telecommunications. Click on the links below to learn more about the resources provided by the various subdivisions of the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Detrick:

Barquist Army Health Clinic

The Barquist Army Health Clinic is a Medical Facility within the U.S. Army Medical Department. The goal of the Barquist Army Health Clinic is to manage the health and care of soldiers and military families at Fort Detrick.

U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)

Approximately, 4,600 military, civilian and contractor personnel are assigned to or support the headquarters and subordinate units of USAMRMC. Officers, enlisted soldiers, and civilians provide a wide variety of medical, scientific, and technical expertise.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is primarily a civilian organization. Army personnel make up under 2% of the workforce. All USACE jobs open to candidates not currently employed by the Army are posted at www.usajobs.gov.

U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command

The mission of Fort Detrick Engineering, a subsidiary of the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command, is to provide worldwide systems engineering, integration, implementation, quality assurance, test and acceptance, and technical support for information transport infrastructure and networks in support of enterprise information systems.

Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center

The Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center (AFMIC), based in Fort Detrick, is an agency within the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) of the U.S. Department of Defense; its mission is to track and assess the full range of global health issues for the DoD.

DIA employs a limited number of medical intelligence analysts, support professionals, and support assistants at the AFMIC.

Other

Defense Medical Logistics Center

The 130,000 square foot Defense Medical Logistics Center is currently under construction and is scheduled to be fully operational in early 2009. The purpose of this center is to consolidate all medical logistics units and to coordinate all medical logistics functions.

As such, the building will house employees from numerous organizations, including the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency, the Defense Medical Standardization Board, and the Joint Medical Logistics Functional Development Center, among others.

Defense Contract Management Agency

The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is the Department of Defense component that works directly with Defense suppliers to help ensure that DoD, Federal, and allied government supplies and services are delivered on time, at projected cost, and meet all performance requirements.